exhibition:

Undecided Utopias

Casco shows the coral islands of 'Kish'

14 Apr 2007
13 أيار / مايو 2007
  • 18:00 -18:00
  • Casco
  • Nieuwekade 213-215, Utrecht

Pictures of an privately initiated architectual competition.

In the waters of the Persian Gulf, eighteen kilometers off the southern coast of the Iranian mainland, lies the coral island of 'Kish'. Since before the 1979 Iranian revolution, the island has been a field for economic, touristic and architectural experiments. 'Undecided Utopias' focuses on a privately initiated architectural competion involving up to twelve German architecture firms to design a huge international tourist ans business resort.

When design becomes the sphere of exploitation and misrecognition, the place, subjected to such design, is brought to a certain extra-geographic mode. Such excess provides the best ground for the coming together of various geographic and cultural points of views and fantasies, enacted in design. 'Undecided Utopia's' is part of an ongoing series of projects related to the island of Kish.